... marking to Woolwich players in 1904, Jackson explained to bemused team-mates that effective marking was far more intrinsic to the Australian code than in the football played here. Several Republic of Irelan ...

... Brady is typically forthright and Paddy Mulligan engages. Both are especially enlightening on why the Republic of Ireland failed in the 1960s and 1970s despite having several outstanding players and the ...

... him on a path of struggle that eventually led him to managing in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.
Gritty and passionate beyond bloody-mindedness, Adams raises cutting your nose off to spite your ...

... Scotland, while my wife is Italian-Australian. If this sounds a tad extreme, at a recent parenting class I attended one new baby would be eligible for Australia, Portugal and the Czech Republic, while ...

... Republic of Ireland women’s national side may not yet be world leaders but, after their highly publicised stance against inequality in April, they are at the vanguard of the movement to raise the ...

... out of Anfield just four years later, his spells at Blackburn, Sunderland and at last Tranmere were exercises in diminishing returns.
Along the way McAteer represented the Republic of Ireland at two ...

... a certain glamour and pull that players find hard to resist. Just ask Jack Grealish.
There are calls for Wales to select Woodburn for the March World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in ...

... Republic reaching the second round, Poland the quarter-finals and Germany the semis, Scotland are in fact just outside UEFA’s top 16.
But this World Cup group, also featuring Slovakia, Slovenia and Lithuania, ...

... a huge damp squib”. In fact, The Three were laden with home nations stars, including Bobby Moore and Bobby Charlton, Scotland’s Peter Lorimer and Pat Jennings from Northern Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland ...

... out of four encounters with Poland and the Republic of Ireland (in spite of dominating every single one of those matches from start to finish), and a team with an all-too-obvious tendency to suddenly look ...

... d alcohol consumption. Had the Republic of Ireland not scored in the first seconds against France the next day, I would have walked – right over to my DVD collection via the off-licence.
After that histor ...

... round of 16 is not so bad. This is the opinion of Marco Tardelli, former World Cup winner with the Azzurri in 1982 and assistant manager to Giovanni Trapattoni at Republic of Ireland: “Probably, Spain ...

Run to knockout stage of Euro 2016 has eclipsed interest in both rugby and GAA
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26 June ~ While marketeers will occasionally try to aver that Ireland has become “rugby country”, ...

23 June ~ Interventionist Football Deity cannot influence events because he doesn't exist. If he did he'd probably support smaller nations, especially those with a reasonably ethical foreign policy and ...